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pay to destroy!

Inflation Lies
–Julio Cortázar
Mirrors are free
but how costly to really look at yourself, and how
to see yourself
without it being a pre-stamped postcard
greeting with a view of the leaning
tower.
Rabid dogs are free
you never pay a cent for those things
on the other hand this roll this cup
of tapioca or the morning cappuccino
price reliable eighty cents plus tip
maybe included maybe not
The sun is free and this eraser
fifty cents. pay to destroy! Cats
are free chickenpox
accidents the wisps of smoke
gracefully streaming from the peanut vendors’ carts.
Eclipses are free so pretty and the speeches
in the Plaza de Mayo. A nation
that does everything for its children. Read
the guidebook with the map: two forty.
Love is free you pay at the end or okay
they pay you (depending on luck or your necktie).

Various prices: Lin Yutang Boca Juniors
you see it you try it on you take it away
Death is free. One two and three
a spoonful for papa
and another for mama and such a cute baby